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About Maker Faire Kansas City:

Maker Faire: Kansas City celebrates things people create themselves — from new technology and electronic gizmos to urban farming and “slow-made” foods to homemade clothes, quilts and sculptures. This family-friendly event demonstrates what and how people are inventing, making and creating. It brings together Makers, Crafters, Inventors, Hackers, Scientists and Artists for a faire full of fun and inspiration. Come see what others are making and be inspired to tap into your own creativity!

Check out the blog section on this site to see the Maker Faire: Kansas City program guide (coming soon), which includes lists of key speakers, attractions, activities for kids and families and the schedule of musicians playing through the weekend!

“Maker Faire establishes relationships that did not previously exist…between ideas, between things, between people.”

“…the most important thing Maker Faire does is establish those relationships among makers.”

-Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of Make Magazine

(From a presentation given at a community meeting hosted by Union Station in Kansas City on January 31, 2011, view a video of the meeting here.)

About Maker Faire:Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.

Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.

The original Maker Faire event was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2013 celebrated its eighth annual show with more than 800 makers and 110,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in three years to 500+ makers and 55,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Newcastle (UK), and Tokyo are the home of “featured” Maker Faires (200+ makers), and community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world—including right here in Kansas City.

About MAKE Magazine:MAKE is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will. Subscribe here. 50% of your subscription helps support all Maker Movement activities at Science City at Union Station!